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Not even 24 hours after Apple announces and releases iOS 5.1 to the public, the iPhone Dev-Team has already updated redsn0w to version 0.9.10b6 to support a TETHERED jailbreak for non-A5 device owners running iOS 5.1. Old bootrom iPhone 3GS models will still have the untethered jailbreak; iPad 2 and iPhone 4S owners will not be able to jailbreak at iOS 5.1 and there will be no way for them to downgrade back to iOS 5.0 or iOS 5.0.1 once Apple stops ...

From within iOS 5’s Notification Center, we will find white text in the center of the canvas that reads, “No New Notifications” whenever we simply don’t have any notifications from iOS. When we actually have a notification there, the text will disappear and Notification Center will display the notification(s) that you have instead of the white text. As soon as your remove the notification from Notification Center, that white text will come back. ...

Today Apple announced iOS 5.1 along with 'The new iPad', which means we need a new development tool with features for developing in iOS 5.1 and for the new hardware. Downloadable right now for free from the Mac App Store is the latest version of Xcode – version 4.3.1. The pervious version was Xcode 4.3. You can follow this link to download the latest Xcode or you can launch the Mac App Store yourself by navigating ...

3G or 4G? Make up your mind.

One thing that caused a massive debate with the release of the iPhone 4S was whether or not the HSPA+ network AT&T uses to provide service to Apple’s new smartphone should be considered 4G or not. The data speeds of AT&T’s HSPA+ network are capable of doubling the speeds the iPhone 4 could get on AT&T’s 3G network. It could also double the speeds the iPhone 4S was provided ...

The process of Geotagging our photographs has now become a very common drill for people taking pictures to share with other people. Geotagging lets us see where and when a photograph was taken. iPhoto for the Mac supports Geotagging and allows us to share that personal information with the people we send our photos to. The location of where the photograph was taken will then be shown on a Google Map. ...

If you’re a Mac user and you depend on Skype for conversations with your coworkers, friends, or for video calling, then you’ll like to know about a new version (build 5.6.0.143), which was just released today. To get this update, you can either navigate to Skype>Check for Updates from the Mac OS X Menu Bar, or you can download the update directly from this link.

The update will bring some ...

If you’re one of the many people who agree that the iDevice’s auto rotation is bothersome because it seems to rotate at the worst of times, then you’ve already become accustomed to enjoying the rotation lock feature to keep the iDevice display from rotating while you use it. The usual place for enabling and disabling display rotation is from the multitasking App Switcher when you swipe to the left and find the iPod music controls. The left-most ...

iOS 5 brought us the capability of launching the Camera application right from our lock screen – a feature that goes very nice with the high quality photographs the iPhone 4S is capable of taking very quickly. This feature has made the iPhone a very popular point-and-shoot camera device.

Apple took many things into consideration for the lock screen camera button: speed, appearance, security, and two-step launching. While the security is a very nice feature, ...

Budg-it is a new App Store application by iOS development team called Flawless Apps, which consists of graphic designer Surenix and iOS developer Tyler Nettleton and it hopes to change the way we budget for each day by giving us a dead-simple user interface with an eye-candy appearance. The application will let you input an amount of money you want to limit yourself to spending in one day and then afterwards allow you to input any purchases you make. When the budget amount becomes encased in parentheses then you have over-spent. The application ...

If you have ever wondered how much your money in the United States is worth in other countries or vice-versa, then a jailbreak widget dubbed CurrencyConverter for Notification Center by iOS developer Jonas Gessner will give you a quick and simple way to convert your numbers straight from Notification Center.

CurrencyConverter has a compact interface that will bring up a number pad when you tap on either of the two blank boxes in the widget. Above the number pad is a bar with a few ...

iOS 5 comes with notifications for all of your push notification-enabled applications. They will pop up as banners as long as you have the banner functionality enabled through your Settings application. If you have ever wanted to get notifications for more than just applications, but also system events such as turning off radios, taking screenshots, installing applications, and so much more, then a new jailbreak tweak dubbed Notifictor by iOS developer McNight may tickle ...